For 30 years, Finance Fund has connected local for-profit business owners and nonprofit organizations with public and private funding to help spark community development and create jobs in distressed communities statewide. Find out more about Finance Fund's work, projects and partners and how we can help you achieve your goals and benefit your community.

Finance Fund provides funding for projects that fulfill community needs, create jobs and improve the quality of life in economically distressed communities. We connect small business owners, developers and community development organizations with public and private sources of funding. Our funding programs include urban and rural lending, grants and gap financing.

Our work is guided by community-based organizations and leaders who know best what is needed in their own backyards.

Since 1987, Finance Fund has directly benefited the lives of Ohioans by funding small business expansion and job creation. Our focus areas include healthy food projects, education and training, community facilities and health care.

Finance Fund works with state and federal policy makers on issues that impact economic development in Ohio. Whether it's to educate about an issue or provide information, our ultimate aim is to help leaders better serve their citizens through new and continuing support for programs that improve the quality of life for many people.

Finance Fund brings resources and projects together to improve the economic vitality of distressed communities. Learn more about our work, how to apply for our programs and how to involve our experts in your educational seminars or news stories.

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Everyone should have access to nutritious and affordable food. Finance Fund, along with many others in the local community, are working hard to make that happen. It has been my great privilege to represent Finance Fund on a terrific Working Committee to develop the Columbus and Franklin County Local Food Action Plan which launched this [...]

U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown today visited the construction site of The Childhood League Center’s new location near downtown Columbus, and highlighted the importance of the New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) program, which made financing for the project possible. The NMTC program incentivizes private investments into highly distressed, low-income communities. A long-time supporter of the NMTC program, Senator Brown [...]

Finance Fund and Finance Fund Capital Corporation (FCAP) hosted over 200 business, elected, community and nonprofit leaders at our Annual Gala last week, which was generously sponsored by our friends at U.S. Bancorp. The Performance Hall at OSU’s Ohio Union was brimming with Champions for Ohio who enjoyed an Awards Program, reception and dinner. Our [...]

Finance Fund is pleased to provide an economic development grant to assist the Madisonville Community Urban Redevelopment Corp. (MCURC) in redeveloping a nearly 90-year-old historic landmark bank building into modern residential and retail space totaling 5,600 sq. ft. This building is a wonderful example of adaptive re-use that will certainly add to the community’s vibrancy [...]

A favorite part of my work is visiting projects to gather stories about the people and places that are making steady progress toward economic recovery. Through public-private partnerships, Finance Fund and Finance Fund Capital Corporation (FCAP) flow capital into projects located in neglected and overlooked neighborhoods across the state. These investments build community assets and fuel [...]

There’s been a strong positive response to the new Healthy Food for Ohio (HFFO) program, which provides grants and loans to grocery stores and other healthy food retailers operating in or expanding in underserved communities. All of us at Finance Fund Capital Corporation (FCAP) are deeply grateful to the many people and organizations that have [...]

A neighborhood transformation story is taking place in Cleveland, where a new ceramic arts studio and coffee shop are adding to the diversity and vibrancy of the up-and-coming Waterloo Arts and Entertainment District in the Collinwood neighborhood. Finance Fund provided Northeast Shores Development Corporation with a $150,000 economic development grant that helped transform two vacant, [...]

This past week, a delegation of Finance Fund staff participated in the 2015 annual meeting of the Opportunity Finance Network, the premier association of Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI). This year, more than 1,200 professionals from around the country met in downtown Detroit, a community that is showing remarkable signs of resilience coming out of [...]

Finance Fund and FCAP are deeply grateful for the expertise and service of the many people who volunteer their time to provide us with community insights, business counsel and important connections to other economic development leaders and funding sources. Ninety percent of our Board members are drawn from the low-income communities we serve across the [...]